Susanna Childressoyo
Poetry

Susanna Childress was born in California, spent her first decade in the Philippines where her parents taught at a seminary, and landed in southern Indiana for the remainder of her adolescence. She was a double major in English Literature and Writing at Indiana Wesleyan University and holds a Master’s from The University of Texas at Austin and a PhD from Florida State University. Her first book, Jagged with Love, was selected by Billy Collins for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and by the University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale for the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award. Her second book, Entering the House of Awe, was recently released by New Issues Press. She has taught writing and literature at Valparaiso University and Hope College and has received an AWP Intro Journals Award, the National Career Award in Poetry from the National Society of Arts and Letters, and a Lilly post-doctoral fellowship. She lives in Holland, Michigan.